machinima
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Precedent
- ''Quake'' movies
- Generalization
- Recent history
- Production
- Comparison to film techniques
- Character and camera control
- Limitations and solutions
- Legal issues
- Microsoft and Blizzard
- Semiotic mode
- Common genres
- Competitions
- Mainstream appearances
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Machinima () is an animation technique using real-time screen capturing in computer graphics engines, video games and virtual worlds to create a cinematic production. The word "Machinima" is a portmanteau of the words machine and cinema. According to Guinness World Records, machinima is an art of making animated narrative films from computer graphics, most commonly used by video games.
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